Sunday 9 March 2008

UK food labels

There is a fairly universal food labelling system they use here in the UK that I like a lot (see the image). It makes it pretty easy to tell at a glance how good the food is for you. It includes Calories, Sugar, Fat, Saturated Fat, and Salt. They tend to print this on the front of the food packaging so you don't even have to turn it over. Recently, I have noticed that they are now including a color scheme as well. Red means high (bad) and green is low (good). I hope they start doing something like this in the US to make it easier to tell how good or bad something is for you.

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